D.C.’s budget gap in fiscal year 2012: $345 million. $400 million. $500 million. Er, make that $600 million. Michael Neibauer reports that Mayor Vince Gray’s financial team has revised the city’s budget gap for the upcoming fiscal year yet again, in what is certainly a sobering piece of Friday afternoon news for anyone in charge of a D.C. city agency. Remember the massive outpouring of opinion when the city had to trim $188 million from the slate late last year? One can only imagine what it’ll be like when the Mayor and Council sit down to try to reconcile over three times that sum. Neibauer notes that when asked about the gap, Gray said he wanted to know how the revised estimate was reached, but that “once we get into that ethereal atmosphere, it may not even matter anymore.” Here’s to spending the weekend thinking about on potential tax proposals!